Eastern Religion Quotes

#1. We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.

Rob Bell

#2. Christianity ... is an Eastern religion.

Tom Robbins

#3. At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up becoming fascinated with Eastern Religion, and ultimately it seemed to encompass the more abstract mind that I have.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#4. According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy.

Melody Beattie

#5. I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy ... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

Douglas Adams

#7. The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

Cat Stevens

#8. All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization.

Roshan Sharma

#9. In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

David Bellos

#10. People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

Milos Forman

#11. Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

Anne Lamott

#12. My brother is gay and my parents don't care, as long as he marries a doctor.

Elayne Boosler

#13. Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

Eric Hoffer

#14. Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Karl Kraus

#15. While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite.

Hyde

#16. He's my family," she said finally. Quietly. "He's everything.

Stacia Kane

#17. Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Seamus Heaney

#18. It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.

Wesley L. Duewel

#19. Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol.
Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

C. G. Jung

#20. Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Sufjan Stevens

#22. Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout the ages. Were I to go to church, I'd be a hypocrite.

Danny Masterson

#23. The God of the Bible is a God who specializes in minorities and who works through remnants.

Brian Johnston

#24. When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.

Charlaine Harris

#25. You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

Deepak Chopra

#26. Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian tradition, a way that is known as contemplation.

Ray Simpson